Comparison · 15 material differences
Front Row Dads vs Strategic Coach
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Verified September 2026
Paid mastermind
Verified September 2026 Front Row Dads
Fathers who own or run businesses and want to organise their working life around family rather than the reverse.
Paid mastermind
Strategic Coach
Owner-operators, professionals in their own practice and high-commission salespeople who meet a personal income floor and have run their business for at least three years.
What the records say
- Role or title — Front Row Dads: No published role or title; Strategic Coach: Business owner, professional in your own practice, or high-commission salesperson.
- Annual dues — Front Row Dads: $2,497 a year; Strategic Coach: Higher levels (10x Ambition Program, Free Zone Frontier) cost more than the Signature Program and add their own business-size tests; no figures are published for them..
Side by side
| Front Row Dads | Strategic Coach | |
|---|---|---|
| Profile | ||
| Type | Paid mastermind | Paid mastermind |
| Founded | 2016 (Founded in 2016 by Jon Vroman, who had earlier founded the Front Row Foundation in 2005. The frontrowdads.com About page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching on 2026-09-06; the year was read from search results quoting that page.) | 1989 (Dan Sullivan and Babs Smith founded Strategic Coach in Toronto in 1989; the year is reported consistently in interviews and business press rather than on a single official page fetched for this record.) |
| Headquarters | Austin, United States | Toronto, Canada |
| Geographic footprint | Primarily virtual, with in-person retreats and an annual FRD Live event in Austin, Texas; the organization describes members in multiple countries. | Workshops run in Toronto and Chicago, in the United Kingdom, and online; the company operates North American and UK programs. |
| Members | Could not be independently verified. Search results quoting the organization's About page describe "over 300 members in 10 countries", while an earlier account cites 230 members in 12 countries; the page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetching on 2026-09-06. | Not publicly disclosed. The company's own preview material says it has worked with more than 25,000 business owners over 35 years, which is cumulative rather than current enrolment. |
| Chapters | No chapters; members are placed in small accountability groups called "Bands". | No chapters; participants are grouped into workshop cohorts by city or online session. |
| Primary audience | Fathers who own or run businesses and want to organise their working life around family rather than the reverse. | Owner-operators, professionals in their own practice and high-commission salespeople who meet a personal income floor and have run their business for at least three years. |
| Typical member | Members are entrepreneurial fathers. The organization's framing is "family men with businesses, not businessmen with families"; it publishes no revenue, net worth or company-size test. | Participants are entrepreneurs rather than corporate executives. The published entry test is personal income, not company revenue: a minimum net personal income of US/CA$200,000 in North America, with a separate sterling test in the United Kingdom. |
| Qualification | ||
| Role or title | No published role or title | Business owner, professional in your own practice, or high-commission salespersonEmployed managers are not the target participant.verified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Invitation required | No | No |
| Sponsor required | No | No |
| Application process | Core membership is bought directly at the published monthly or annual rate. The VIP tier requires an application and at least three months of Core membership before applying. The organization states there is no trial period. | Prospective participants book a discovery call, confirm they meet the tenure and personal-income tests, and are placed into a Signature Program workshop cohort by city or online session. Income is verified by tax receipts or an accountant's letter. Participants progress to higher program levels over time rather than applying to them directly. |
| Selectivity | Not publicly disclosed for Core, which is open at the published price. VIP requires an application; no acceptance rate is published. One third-party summary states the Brotherhood is closed to new members, which the live membership page does not corroborate. | Not publicly disclosed. There is no published acceptance rate; the gate is the documented income test plus the fee. |
| Cost | ||
| Annual dues | $2,497 a yearCore membership, annual rate, described on the page as saving 15 per cent against monthly.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | Higher levels (10x Ambition Program, Free Zone Frontier) cost more than the Signature Program and add their own business-size tests; no figures are published for them. |
| Monthly dues | $247 a monthCore membership, monthly rate.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | Higher levels (10x Ambition Program, Free Zone Frontier) cost more than the Signature Program and add their own business-size tests; no figures are published for them. |
| Programme fee | Core pricing is published; the VIP tier price is not. | Not publicly disclosed. The company states fees are set by income bracket, are paid up front on an annual basis, and must be paid in full before the first session of the new year; it publishes no price list.verified September 2026 · source ↗ |
| Event costs | Not publicly disclosed. Members receive preferred access and discounted admission to FRD Live in Austin; no ticket price is published.verified September 2026 · source ↗ | Higher levels (10x Ambition Program, Free Zone Frontier) cost more than the Signature Program and add their own business-size tests; no figures are published for them. |
| Membership term | Monthly or annual; no trial period | Annual, paid in advance |
| Structure | ||
| Meeting frequency | Monthly deep dive calls and Band meetings, quarterly online summits, VIP retreats in spring and autumn, plus the annual FRD Live event | Four workshop days a year, in person or virtual, plus Coach Connection sessions between workshops |
| Peer forums | Small accountability groups called "Bands", supported by a private members' community and, for VIP members, a separate private thread | Facilitated workshop cohorts led by a Strategic Coach coach; not a confidential peer board |
| Confidentiality | Not publicly disclosed | Not publicly disclosed |
| Time commitment | Third-party summaries citing the organization describe an expectation of roughly 3-4 hours a month; not confirmed on a page that could be fetched directly. | Four workshop days a year plus between-workshop sessions |
| Organized as | Virtual, Event-focused, Forum-based | Cohort-based, Event-focused, Virtual |
| Confidential peer forums | Yes | Partial |
| Local chapters | No | No |
| Virtual membership | Yes | Yes |
| Online community | Yes | Partial |
| Member directory | Yes | Not documented |
| Events | Yes | Yes |
| Programming | ||
| Educational programming | Yes | Yes |
| Leadership development | Yes | Yes |
| Retreats | Yes | No |
| Travel | Partial | No |
| Family programming | Yes | No |
| Spouse and partner programming | Yes | Not documented |
| Next-generation programming | Partial | No |
| Investment discussions | Partial | No |
| Investment opportunities | No | No |
| Philanthropic component | Partial | Not documented |
| Networking emphasis | Medium | Low |
| Social emphasis | High | Low |
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